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...warming reports; he's now back at ExxonMobil. Steven Griles, an energy lobbyist who became deputy interior secretary, was a one-man extraction-industry conflict-of-interest machine at Interior; the inspector general described his tenure as an "ethical quagmire," and he's now awaiting sentencing in the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal...
...mentioning the names of three he thought were underperforming. Rove is at the center of the White House's lost-e-mail fiasco. The Wall Street Journal reported that the Justice Department is talking to Rove's former assistant as part of its probe into disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff's contacts with the White House. And on April 24, the Los Angeles Times reported that the independent Office of Special Counsel is investigating whether Rove and his staff engaged in a broad range of illegal political activities. What's with Rove's omnipresence? For starters, some investigators are newly empowered...
...options by Wall Street executives, according to a statement from the center. Three of the stories that made last year’s final round covered high-profile national issues such as the National Security Agency’s wiretaps, the revelation of secret CIA prisons and the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal. “This year you don’t have the blockbuster national security stories,” Jones said, “but that doesn’t mean that this year’s stories are any less important.” The Goldsmith Career...
...real test has never been all those sneaky appropriations bill "earmarks" you've been hearing about over the past year, or even the lavish junkets that turned Jack Abramoff into Washington's favorite travel agent. It's whether lawmakers would agree to stand in airport security lines and take off their shoes like the rest...
...JACK ABRAMOFF, disgraced Washington lobbyist, talking to a Jewish publication about his role in the Capitol Hill lobby scandal...